work? Bad conduct and bad language, according to the letter of a correspondent in this day’s issue, are too often manifested, tending to the annoyance of the employer and to the disgrace of the employed. But what shall we say of the steady and well-conducted woman whose first sense of duty is to faithfully serve their employer, and whose next care is for the welfare of her family? We have seen such a woman late in the evening, enter a grocer’s store, turning down her gown-sleeves and asking to be served with a few provisions for the next day’s consumption. Ay! and we have seen such a woman rush into a draper’s shop just at closing time desiring to purchase a few yards of calico ‘to make the boy a shirt’ or a remnant of print ‘to make the girl a pinafore’, before she (the mother) went to bed. Thus remaining up half the night in household duties, what wonder is it that the poor creature, jaded at night and unrested in the morning, is unable, though straining her powers to the utmost, to accomplish what her employer would demand as a good day’s work? Ye exquisites of the counter who glibly recount the ills that flesh is heir to, and clamour for a remission of labour, have you ever bestowed a thought on the more irksome and more protracted labour of those who provide you with clean linen? And has it ever occurred to you that your want of success in the early-closing scheme is mainly due to an exclusive and selfish principle with which the movement has been invested? Shop early! say you. But how is it possible for such persons as we have described to do your bidding? It seems to us – and we have many times said so – that the movement began at the wrong end. It is impossible in our present article to do more than notice a few of the most prominent features in connection with the laundry-women’s strike, and we will therefore bring our remarks to a close by exhorting those on whose behalf we have made them, to put the two hours per day which they have gained to a good and profitable use, and to do all in their power to prove by increased interest or activity that the loss to employers is less than they imagine.”
The Late Professor Jacobs.
Of this ventriloquist, conjuror, and impromptu composer and singer of songs from any sort and number of words given him by the audience , I could say much, it having been my privilege to supply the musical accessories for several years on the occasion of his visits to Hastings and St. Leonards. I will, however, leave the -
